FOOD short stories/poems

[Miriam Margala]

Hi Madelaine,

Hrabal's Postriziny is a good suggestion - especially the zabijacka and
then the entire "veprove hody" scene. Plenty of images and metaphors.....


Regards
Miriam


Leslie Farmer wrote:

>The first story that comes to mind is Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's)
>"Babette's Feast." On a more modern note, one of Trevanian's spy novels features a
>gourmet dinner ordered by a man who can eat very little--in fact, is dying.
>There was a longish story or report in the New Yorker about one of Francois
>Mitterand's last meals--supposedly, orlotans. Wislawa Szymborska wrote a poem
>about The Onion, included in English translation in a volume of her collected
>works.   There is a huge, delicious (and, eventually, uneaten) spread in Keats'
>"St. Agnes' Eve". In "Postrizeni" Hrabal wrote at length about the collection of
>mushrooms.   And that's all the literary food I can bear to contemplate at
>the moment, probably because I ate too much of a thin-crust pizza (mushroom and
>onion).
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